Corelight Rises Series A Funding

A San Francisco-based technology startup Corelight had raised $9.2 million in a Series A round of funding led by Accel Partners. Other participants include Osage University Partners and Dr Steve McCanne, co-founder of Riverbed Technology.

Corelight Sensor is the company product which uses Bro, an open-source network analysis framework to check even the most advanced or stealthy network attacks. Dr Vern Paxson, a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, who co-founded the company and serves as its chief scientist.

Corelight mentioned that it uses specialized hardware to provide four times the data processing output. It also features high-performance network interface card to quickly generate results.

“Since all data, no matter what the threat vector, travel over networks, the Corelight Sensor is a powerful tool to understand threats” Alan Saldich, CMO of Corelight, told e-security Planet. Those threats include malware infections port scanning, denial of service attacks, unauthorized access, misconfigurations, abuse, exfiltration of data, insider threats, advanced persistent threats, phishing or other email-based attacks, he said.

“While Bro-Corelight is not always the tool that detects incidents–in many cases, it is end users who detect unusual emails or behaviour, or report ransomware–it is the fastest way to resolve them and get clarity about exactly what happened and why to get to the root cause,” continued Saldich.

Corelight Sensor provides output in easy to understand manner.

“Understanding those alerts is a laborious and time-consuming job because there are many systems involved, each with different data, logs, user interfaces, formats and they are not necessarily correlated or organized in a way that is useful to [incident responders],” said Saldich.

“That means that advanced persistent threats can linger undetected or unresolved for hours, days or weeks because dealing with them is so challenging.”

Corelight present the security threat data in a format so that security personals take the action.

“Corelight helps companies resolve cyber security incidents much faster than they can today. We do that by providing clarity and detailed information about all network traffic, summarized and structured specifically for cybersecurity pros and incident responders,” added Saldich.